Beautiful Gardens of the World

Edited by Robert Jackson

Dust Jacket - front:

This is a wonderful old book. This “First Edition” book was published in 1953 by Evans Brothers Limited, London. The book measures 9 inches by 11 3/8 inches and contains 88+ pages. The illustrations are printed on un-numbered pages. The dust jacket is a bit tattered around the edges. The green cloth cover of the book has a lovely gilt pictorial on the front and the title in gilt along the spine. Bits of the dust jacket paper have stuck to the front cover. The lower edge of the front cover is a bit “faded.” The cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is a bit above good plus.

Front Cover/Spine:

Contents:

Introduction

England and Wales

  • Bodnant, Nr. Conway
  • Hascombe Court, Godalming
  • Nymans, Handcross
  • The Grange, Benenden
  • Hidcote Manor, Nr. Broadway
  • Fincham, Norfolk
  • Luton Hoo
  • Billington Manor, Leighton Buzzard
  • St. Anne’s Manor, Sutton Bonington
  • Raby House, Willaston-in-Wirral

    • Scotland

  • Keilloiur Castle, Methuen
  • Easter Aberchalder

    • Britain’s Tropical Gardens

    Ireland

  • Annesgrove, Castletownroche
  • Headfort, County Meath
  • Wllbrook House, County Dublin
  • Mount Stewart, Ulster

    • America

  • Thorndale, Dutchess County
  • Puget Sound, Seattle
  • Brandon, Virginia
  • Wormsloe
  • Tennessee

    • Canada

  • Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton
  • Montreal Botanical Gardens
  • Mrs. R.W. Reford’s Garden, Grand Metis, P.Q.
  • The Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C.

    • Bermuda

    South America

    Australia

    New Zealand

    Japan

    China

    Hong Kong

    Singapore

    India

    Ceylon

    South Africa

  • Monterey
  • Kirstenbosch

    • Kenya

    Egypt

    Israel

    Turkey

    Italy

  • La Mortola, Ventimiglia
  • Villa Taranto, Pallanza, Lago Maggiore

    • Spain

    Portugal

    Madeira

    France

  • Villandry
  • Courance

    • Belgium

  • Annevoie
  • Beloeil

    • Holland

    Germany

    Austria

    Switzerland

    Denmark

    Norway

    Sweden

    Acknowledgements


    Title Page

    Excerpt – Dust Jacket:
    In his introduction to this lovely volume the editor says: “It would be idle to pretend that a deep and abiding love of flowers is as common everywhere in the world as in Britain…But nevertheless there are few countries where the well-to-do live without gardens. They are not always, naturally enough, gardens as we know them. Climate and soil impose their limitations and gardens serve different purposes in different countries… To go round the world’s gardens, even if only in pictures, is a fascinating experience for any garden-lover.”

    Here, in sixty pages of monochrome illustrations and five wonderful four-colour plates, are the gardens of the world—gems of scenic beauty and color from all quarters of the globe, each accompanied by a short descriptive text…
    End excerpt


    Title Page – Verso (date)


    Bodnant, North Wales


    Top: The steps leading to wisteria-covered pergola at Nymans, Handcross.

    Bottom: A grassy walk flanked by Japanese flowering cherries under-planted with low-growing shrubs at Grange, Benenden, Kent.


    Top: Twin Canary Island palms stand like sentinels in a cottage garden on Tresco, one of the most beautiful of the Scilly Isles.

    Bottom: Keillour’s crowning point is the round pond surrounding which grow primulas, meconoopsis, nomocharis, lilies, irises and astilbes.


    Top: Willbrook House, County Dublin, where a fine garden was made by a great gardener, the late Sir Frederick Moore.

    Bottom: The terrace at Mount Stewart, a magnificent Ulster garden that suggests the colour and brilliance of a Mediterranean climate.


    Otahuna, Tai Tapu, Canterbury, built by Sir Heaton Rhodes, one of New Zealand’s greatest sons.


    Top: Garden in the campus of the National Central University, Shapingba, near Chungking.

    Bottom: Water and stones are indispensable as plants and trees in the best Japanese gardens.


    Monterey, Cape Province, home of Mr. H. Tevis.


    Lilies in concrete boxes thrive in a sheltered corner in the gardens of Vasparken above the noise of Sweden’s capital.


    Top: Gethsemane, the most sacred garden in the world. At the foot of Mount of Olives, the garden, twenty yards square, is on the road from Jerusalem to Bethany. The name is derived from the fact that it was once the gethsemane or oil press to which labourers brought olives for oil extraction.

    Center: Even from the side entrance of Koubbeh Palace, ex-King Farouk looked across the finest lawns in Egypt through tall trees towards a lake and an aviary.

    Bottom: Abadan, Persia’s hot, airless oil town, had many gardens, made and kept bright with difficulty by British oilmen, before the evacuation.

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